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Appendix 2
Basic Furniture and Equirment for Kindergartens
1. Tables and chairs as required (kindergartens which have desks should replace them with tables when the desks wear out).
Average height of desk Average height of seat
Suggested Dimensions
Are Grour 3-4 Age Group 4-6
20" 9"
21"
10"
101⁄2"
10%
Average depth of seat
2.
A blackboard with matt surface.
3.
Low shelves, book shelves and storage cupboards/units.
4. Display boards such as tack board, magnet board, felt board.
5.
One piano or any other musical instruments which can be used in musical activities, such as cassette-recorders, organs, and percussion instruments.
6. Provisions for play:
7.
(a) equipment for physical play such as slides, see-saws, balancing beams, climbing; frames, tricycles, rocking- horses/boats, collapsible tunnels;
(b)
materials for constructional play such as blocks, bricks, coloured beads, straw;
(c) play materials which provide experience for the
learning of basic skills in pre-reading and Maths such as jig-saw puzzles, dominos, matching sets, peg-boards, lottos, counters, counting toys and picture cards;
(a) materials for imaginative play such as tea-sets,
cooking-sets, dolls and clothes, post-office counters, shop-counters, "doctor and nurses" kits, puppets, toy-cars, farm sets, zoo sets, service station sets and road signs;
(e) materials for sand and water play;
(f) art and craft materials such as blunt scissors, newsprint,
coloured papers, collage materials, brushes and paints or large crayons, coloured chalks, straws, modelling clay/plasticine and small blackboards/easels (at least four for each class).
A slide projector.
8. A medical room/sick-bay with first aid facilities.
Note: No change in the required furniture and equipment for child care centres
Details will be found in the Code of Practice for Child
is envisaged.
Care Centres.
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